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Porto Santo and Madeira were discovered in the first quarter of the fifteenth century.
Ballad Collection of the Madeira Archipelago Porto SantoMadeira
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Simão Acciaioly arrived in Madeira from Florence.
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Joana Tavares lived in Madeira in the mid-fifteenth century.
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Valentim Fernandes settled in Lisbon as a printer and publisher.
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Gil Anes founded the chapel of Nosso Senhor Jesus Cristo in Santa Cruz.
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Manuel Afonso Sanha and Mécia de Carvalhal founded an entail at Ponta Delgada.
Carvalhal (2nd Count of) Manuel Afonso de SanhaMécia de Carvalhal Ponta Delgada
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The first entailed estates in Madeira date from the late fifteenth century, after which sesmeiros held land as absolute owners.
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The Corpo Santo chapel was built by Funchal seafarers.
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Álvaro de Ornelas founded the entailed estate of Consolação in Caniço.
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Caniço was made one of about ten 'lugares' when the towns of Funchal and Machico were created.
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By the mid-fifteenth century communications between Madeira and Europe were no longer very rare.
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The parish of Machico was created with its seat in Tristão Vaz's chapel.
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Gomes Eanes de Azurara wrote his chronicle covering the discovery of Madeira.
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João Esmeraldo reportedly built a Santo Amaro chapel at Lombada dos Esmeraldos.
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Madeira was the first of the fifteenth-century Portuguese discoveries.
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Canarian islanders came to Madeira, probably introducing the word gofio.
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André Gonçalves de França arrived and received sesmaria lands at Estreito da Calheta.
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A small settled population existed in the Curral das Freiras by the late fifteenth century.
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Braz Gonçalves de Gaias lived in Machico.
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Corregedores were present in Madeira to curb abuses of jurisdiction by donataries and their ouvidores.
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Machico and Porto Santo became the archipelago's first towns.
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Florentines including the Salviati rose against the Medici and were defeated, some fleeing into exile.
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The Madeiran sugar industry reached great development in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, giving rise to confectionery-making.